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04. October 2007: Copyright Protection of Photographs
Hi, my name is Alison and I wanted to know about whether certain material is copyrighted on blogs. I work for a crime prevention center (http://www.popcenter.org) and am a student/research assistant working under several professors. One of them asked me to find an image of a soccer referee giving out a red card for a "technique" to induce guilt/shame (which is a crime prevention technique). I wanted to see if I could obtain permission to use a picture of one image I have found on"Ref Blog" at http://www.refblog.com/pivo...
There is no contact information and I am not sure whether this is public information/non-copyrighted, since it is a blog.
Can you help me out? ...More
02. October 2007: Trademark Protection of Domain Names
Tim's Q: Company XYZ has requested that I transfer to them a domain that is similar to their company name (x-y-z.com) because it infringes on their "trademark". I have taken down the site to avoid any problem but they also request I transfer the domain to them (not clear who pays any transfer fees). I find no record of a registered trademark nor does their site indicate in any way that the name is a "trademark". Does a common law trademark give give them such rights to a domain name I own because it happens to be the name of their company?...More